What is "eternall"

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What had the Eternall Maker need of thee, The world in his continuall course to keepe, That doest all things deface?

After all these there marcht a most faire Dame,Led of two grysie villeins, th'one Despight,The other cleped Cruelty by name:She dolefull Lady, like a dreary Spright,Cald by strong charmes out of eternall night,Had deathes owne image figurd in her face,Full of sad signes, fearefull to liuing sight.

And therefore we applaud not the judgment of Machiavel, that Christianity makes men cowards or that with the confidence of but half dying, the despised virtues of patience and humility, have abased the spirits of men, which Pagan principles exalted, but rather regulated the wildenesse of audacities, in the attempts, grounds, and eternall sequels of death.

His vncouth shield and straunge armes her dismayd,Whose like in Faery lond were seldome seene,That fast she from him fled, no lesse affrayd,Then of wilde beastes if she had chased beene:Yet he her followd still with courage keene,So long that now the golden HesperusWas mounted high in top of heauen sheene,And warnd his other brethren ioyeous,To light their blessed lamps in Ioues eternall hous.

There now he liueth in eternall blis,Ioying his goddesse, and of her enioyd:Ne feareth he henceforth that foe of his,Which with his cruell tuske him deadly cloyd:For that wilde Bore, the which him once annoyd,She firmely hath emprisoned for ay,That her sweet loue his malice mote auoyd,In a strong rocky Caue, which is they say,Hewen vnderneath that Mount, that none him losen may.

Seeing then Eternall life was lost by Adams forfeiture, in committing sin, he that should cancell that forfeiture was to recover thereby, that Life again.

He thereto meeting said, My dearest Dame,Farre be it from your thought, and fro my will,To thinke that knighthood I so much should shame,As you to leaue, that haue me loued still,And chose in Faery court of meere goodwill,Where noblest knights were to be found on earth:The earth shall sooner leaue her kindly skillTo bring forth fruit, and make eternall derth,Then I leaue you, my liefe, yborne of heauenly berth.

With thought whereof, exceeding mad he grew,And in his rage his mother would haue slaine,Had she not fled into a secret mew,Where she was wont her Sprights to entertaineThe maisters of her art: there was she faineTo call them all in order to her ayde,And them coniure vpon eternall paine,To counsell her so carefully dismayd,How she might heale her sonne, whose senses were decayd.

By which it seemeth to me, (with submission neverthelesse both in this, and in all questions, whereof the determination dependeth on the Scriptures, to the interpretation of the Bible authorized by the Commonwealth, whose Subject I am,) that Adam if he had not sinned, had had an Eternall Life on Earth: and that Mortality entered upon himself, and his posterity, by his first Sin.

So that it is impossible to make any profound enquiry into naturall causes, without being enclined thereby to beleeve there is one God Eternall.

But I will send you the Holy Ghost, and by him you shall have power to beare witnesse to all the world (by your preaching) of my Resurrection, and the workes I have done, and the doctrine I have taught, that they may beleeve in me, and expect eternall life, at my comming again: How does this agree with the coming of Christs Kingdome at the Resurrection?